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Eliezer Yudkowsky's avatar

I don't think there are any old-school, get-the-damn-science right, science fiction authors of the same calibre who invented the Alderson Drive with attached math, or worked out all their planetary orbits and corresponding climates before they started building aliens, who know and write about economics. The SF authors writing about economics are just not of that calibre; they are fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants, learn-from-a-blog-post writers, at least when it comes to economics.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

They could. but the premise is that they don't (because somehow even with all their technology it's just not sustainable).

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